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GEORGE W. ROSE, farmer and justice of the peace, P. O. Marionville, was born at Silver Lake, Susquehanna Co.,
Penn., October 25, 1813, a son of James and Isabella (Hall) Rose, natives of Philadelphia. Penn. His fathçr
was a lawyer by profession, and practiced in Philadelphia, afterward at the bar of Susquehanna county, where he
moved to act as agent for the Bingham lands. He was a prominent member of the Whig party, and served as treasurer
of the county for one term. The mother of George W. died in 1816, and the father married, for his second wife,
Clarissa Griswold, of Vermont, who is also deceased. The father died in 1840. His family consisted of nine children,
all by the first wife, two of whom are living: Mary B. (wife of Frederick Leonard, in Bradford county, Penn.),
and George W., who was reared in Susquehanna county, Penn., and received his education at the high schools of Tioga
county, N. Y. At the age of fourteen years he went to Potter county, Penn., and when he was eighteen moved to Clarion
county, where he was one of the pioneer school teachers. In 1854 he came to Forest county, and located on his present
farm, in Jenks township, which was then a wilderness. He has cleared 150 arces and made all the improvements with
the help of his family. He married. July 16, 1844. Miss Lodema, daughter of Joseph Gates, of Albany, N. Y. She
died in 1852. leaving four children, three of whom are living: James (on the homestead), Mary Isabella (widow of
Warren P. Mercelliott, and living with her father), and Annie (wife of John De Hoover, of Brookville, Penn.); Elizabeth
is deceased. Mr. Rose was again married, on this occasion, in 1852, to Miss Harriet Barnes, of Warren county, Penn.,
by whom two children were born: Timothy (residing in Michigan), and Walter (deceased). Mr. Rose has always been
an active member of the Democratic party, and held the office of justice of the peace since twenty four years of
age, except from 18.57 to 1863, when he served as prothonotary of Forest county. He has also been superintendent
of schools for many years.
From:
History of the Counties of
McKean, Elk and Forest,
Pennsylvania
With Biographical Selections.
J. H. Beers & Co., Publishers
Chicago, 1890.
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